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The XML Technical Publishing Environment

Abstract

You've made the corporate decision to move your valuable technical information into XML format for any variety of good reasons. Now, it's time to figure out how to get that information into all of the forms that your business requires that it be delivered in.

These forms might include:

  • HTML

  • PDF

  • Published paper

  • Other forms of XML

It seems that this would be the easy part, right? After all, you've gone to all this trouble to define your data model, and started tagging your data, now you just want to get it back out. There are still many avenues to explore, and many options that must be weighed. .

This presentation will address many of the different ways to publish XML data, along with some of the pros and cons of each method:

  • Proprietary software/stylesheets

  • XSL-FO

  • XSLT

  • FOSI

We will discuss the various standards, and their development methodology, along with some tips and real-life examples of using each method